My students need the book Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education. This book will bring both diversity groups together for focused monthly discussion groups with community leaders and help drive our school-wide mission.
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My Students
The students involved in this project form the core of the diversity groups at our city's public high school. They come from all four grade levels, multiple racial and ethnic backgrounds, varying sexual orientations, higher and lower socioeconomic classes, differing faiths and beliefs...in other words, from all walks of life within our high school. We have a good cross-section of our city represented, and we want to explore and celebrate those differences.
Out students are anxious to tackle the huge issues of diversity, intolerance, and hate speech within our walls, and they have already taken the steps to begin healing our diverse population.
This year, our school started a campaign called "Hate Has No Home Here," targeting the use of hate speech and intolerance among our student body.
The campaign began in response to student concerns, and although there is still much work to be done, we have a good start on addressing a problem that is an issue in our nation and in our world. These students are willing to be ambassadors to our community, and this project will be another step in that process.
My Project
The books you will help to provide for this project will be the focus for the monthly meetings between our school's Diversity Group and the Gay-Straight Alliance. These two groups see the need for a greater focus on diversity training and teaching tolerance to our student body of nearly 2,000 students. We have had a recent uptick in hate speech and actions driven by intolerance.
Their shared goal is to decrease these actions, and bring about a more harmonious environment for everyone who walks through our doors every day.
Working together with teachers and community leaders in our city, our students will be part of a focused book study on issues of race, immigration, gender, sexual orientation, social classes, disability, and faith.
The books I have ordered will help to facilitate these discussions, and will also help our students plan and lead student assemblies on these issues for our next school year.
This year, staff took the lead for some of the assemblies, but we want to see them become more student-led this year. As leaders in our school, these students have unique voices to impact positive social change--both in our halls and in our world. These materials will help to push them even further in this pursuit.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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